This study discusses verbal humor in entertainment media and examines polarizing representations of English on Korean television. English is a source of stress as well as a medium of humor. Language anxiety about English speaking skills is frequently focalized and viewed as a personal challenge by Korean celebrities, but they often transform their linguistic ‘complex’ into humorous talk. This s...

Abstract The current study examined the extent to which cognitive fluency (CF) contributes utterance (UF) at level of constructs. A total 128 Japanese-speaking learners English completed four speaking tasks—argumentative task, picture narrative reading-to-speaking and reading-while-listening-to-speaking task—and a battery linguistic knowledge tests, capturing vocabulary size, lexical retrieval ...

It is generally assumed that Self-assessment plays a profound role in autonomous language learning und accordingly leads to learner independency. It encourages learners to prospect their own language learning processes and provides them with feedback of their learning progress. Self-assessment also raises the awareness of learners’ individual needs among both students and teachers alike and wil...

BACKGROUND Reading component models such as the Simple View of Reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990) provide a concise framework for describing the processes and skills involved when readers comprehend texts. According to the Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading (Rose, 2006) strong evidence for the SVR comes from Factor Analysis of datasets on different measur...

background: the spread of technology has influenced different aspects of human life, and teaching and learning are not exceptions. this study aimed to examine the potential contribution of the use of technology in teaching english language to medical students.   methods: this qualitative-action research study was conducted in birjand university of medical sciences (bums), with 60 medical studen...

This study involved the translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Athletic Coping Skills Inventory (ACSI-28) for a Spanish-speaking sport environment. The sample was made up of 1,253 Spanish athletes, 967 males and 286 females. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) showed that the 7-factor structure found in the English version was replicated in the Spanish translation in both males a...

In the 4.0 era, social media are becoming increasingly popular worldwide. For better learning, one way is to utilize these platforms, of which YouTube. This study aims investigate practices and perceptions EFL university students who use YouTube platform boost their English-speaking skills. The included a total 106 from various classes in different academic school years. research used questionn...

Twenty-nine English language activities were implemented on a touch-tablet computer. Some activities were focused on a single skill (e.g. reading or speaking), while others involved several integrated skills (e.g. listening and writing). Materials were presented in several modalities, including speech only, speech with figure, silent video, text, speech with text, and speech with text and figur...

The education sector is one of the areas that was badly affected during Covid-19 pandemic, where all schools and campuses in Indonesia have been closed learning carried out online. There are impacts from having online experienced by students teachers or lecturers. This study examines problems arise assessment speaking skill as skills must English language skills, which classes pandemic. Speakin...